CORPUS CHRISTI

St. Ann’s Catholic Church 100 Sutherland Ave, Quesnel BC V2J 2J5

Tel: 250-992-2422, Fax: 250-992-2456, Hall: 250-992-3668

Website: www.stannsquesnel.org

Email: parish.stannsquesnel@shawcable.com Pastor: Fr. Peter Hoan Nguyen Email: frpeter@shaw.ca

St. Ann’s Catholic School www.stannsschool.ca

Tel: 250-992-6237

Sunday Masses: Saturday: 7:00 P.M. Sunday: 9:00 A.M. & 11:00 A.M. St. Kateri Tekakwitha: June 26th 3 P.M.

Weekday Masses: Monday – Thursday: 9:00 A.M. Friday: 12:15 P.M. (1st Friday School Mass at 9 A.M.) Saturday: 9:00 A.M.

Sunday Offering: May 22ND: $2,216.15 Gift Cards: $134.04. Thank you for your generosity!

YEAR C June 4th, 7 PM June 5th, 9 AM June 5th, 11 AM

Reader K. van Putten A. Daly & M. Mckenzie St. Ann’s School Students

Eucharistic M. Moleski R. McGregor & S. Drescher T. Milley

Music S. Moleski R. Boutotte A. de Guzman & School Choir

Ushers Parishioners B. Becker R. Gaetz & St. Ann’s School

Pope’s Intentions for June

Universal: Human Solidarity: That the aged, marginalized, and those who have no one may find–even within the huge cities of the world–opportunities for encounter and solidarity.

Evangelization: Seminarians and Novices: That seminarians and men and women entering religious life may have mentors who live the joy of the Gospel and prepare them wisely for their mission. Please come with Bishop David Monroe and Mgsr. Jerry Desmond to celebrate Father Peter’s anniversary Wednesday June 1st: 7 PM Mass. Also remember Sunday June 19th, 11 AM: for our anniversary Mass.

Mass Intentions:

May 30rd, 9 AM +Alphonse Grenon/Ann Clarke May 31st, 9 AM: +Sandra Boyd

June 1st: 7PM +Claude Grenon/Fr. Peter June 2nd, 9 AM: SCHOOL MASS Dan St. Pierre/+Reegan Winofsky

June 3rd: 12:15 +Mervin Quechuck/Rob & Stanka Lasar & family June 4th: 9 AM Chris Brulotte & family/Carrie Gaudet

7 PM: +Larae & Lyon Appleby May 29th, 9 AM: Clare Barbosa 11 AM: St. Ann’s Parishioners

Healing Ministry hours are noon

until 3 PM in the parish

outer office on the first

Friday of each month.

If you or someone you

know can benefit from

this ministry, drop by or

phone Pat Tresierra.

250-992-6733

Request for Prayers: Don Roth, Eddie Martins, Charmaine Graham, Catherina DeWitt, Lyndsey Rhea, Orla Grenon, Irene

Cleave, Phyllis Erb, Melva Grant, Aiden Russell, Allan Isaak, Ben Hohmann, Michael Fehr, Barb Jim, Ida Celli, Charmaine Stillas & son, Sondra Stillas, Kristin Stillas, Craig Stillas, Bobbie dee Stillas, Clarissa Clement, Gary & Jackie Clement & family, Rinaldo & Malvina Caruso, Gino Rausse, Jean Muir, Chester Billyboy, Jimmie & Chantyman Family, Maria Santos,

Aniceta Zwicker, Macile Laurent, Leanna Chantyman, James Fraser, Mary Roth, Lorraine Hill, Angela Howe, Gerald Wourms, Stephanie Howe, Sheila, Ray & Tracey Alexis, Jason Jimmie, Christina Demonteverde, Rita Andrew, Mickey Lamontagne, Gerard Garden, Sheila Alexis, Roy Alexis, Jason Jimmy, Linda Meoguot, Rochelle Goffic, Rita Mary Andrew, Lucy, Tracy & Zariah Alexis, Mathilda, Dasia and Konway Elkins, Nolan Miskenack, Darren Alexis, Lorraine Rhoades, Betty Pascuzzo, Virgie Pilgrim, Tom O’Reilly, Eleanor Aben, Matt & Shane O’Connell, Irene Chesley, Peter Rudachyk, Betty Dumaine, Leona Brulotte, Fioretta McDonald. Thank you for your prayers

Background on the Gospel Reading: Today, the second Sunday after Pentecost, we celebrate a second solemnity, which marks our return to Ordinary Time. Today is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. At one time, this day was called Corpus Christi, Latin for “the Body of Christ.” In the most recent revision of the liturgy, the name for this day is expanded to be a more complete reflection of our Eucharistic theology. The feeding of the 5,000 is the only one of Jesus' miracles to appear in all four Gospels. Luke places it between Herod's question, “Who is this about whom I hear such things?” and Peter's response to Jesus' question about who he thought Jesus was: “You are the Messiah of God.” In Luke the feeding is not the result of Jesus' compassion for the crowd but is instigated by the disciples. They wanted Jesus to send the crowd away to town. Instead Jesus tells the disciples to give them some food on their own. The passage is meant to remind us of two feedings in the Old Testament: the feeding of the Israelites in the desert and Elisha's feeding of 100 people with 20 loaves in 2 Kings 4:42-44. It is also connected to the institution of the Eucharist. As in the Last Supper accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke and in Paul's account in 1 Corinthians 11:23-24, Jesus takes bread, looks up to heaven, blesses the bread, breaks it, and then gives it to the disciples. In using this exact language, Luke is reminding his readers that in this miracle Jesus is doing more than feeding hungry people as God did for the Israelites and the prophet Elisha did as well. The bread he gives is his body, which he will continue to give as often as the community breaks bread in remembrance of him in the Eucharist.

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Diocese, Parish and School News

St. Ann’s Catholic School is NOW accepting applications for all grades. Call 992-6237. CWL is hosting a 5 part series video presentation by Glenn Harmon every Wednesday @ 9:45 -10:45 am, and @

7:00 pm -8pm in the hall basement. Please join us! Legion of Mary meets every Thursday morning after mass. Everyone welcome. Listen to Lighthouse Catholic Media talks on your phone, computer or any device! The cost of your

inspirational talk each month is only $3 US (approximately $3.75 CAD). A portion of that money will go back to our parish. You can cancel your subscription at any time. Register at https://www.lighthousecatholicmedia.org/mp3club. Use Promo Code 104344 to ensure that our parish receives credit. Questions - call Marta at 250-992-3172.

Healing Ministry: Pat is away the first Friday in June.

(SALVATION ARMY PICK UP ON SUNDAY JUNE 5th)

Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation on The Joy of Love Chapter eight: “Guiding, discerning and integrating weakness”(291-312) (con’t) For this purpose the Holy Father recalls the Church’s reflection on “mitigating factors and situations” regarding the attribution of responsibility and accountability for actions; and relying on St. Thomas Aquinas, he focuses on the relationship between rules and discernment by stating: “It is true that general rules set forth a good which can never be disregarded or neglected, but in their formulation they cannot provide absolutely for all particular situations. At the same time, it must be said that, precisely for that reason, what is part of a practical discernment in particular circumstances cannot be elevated to the level of a rule” (AL 304).

The last section of the chapter treats “The logic of pastoral mercy”. To avoid misunderstandings, Pope Francis strongly reiterates: “To show understanding in the face of exceptional situations never implies dimming the light of the fuller ideal, or

proposing less than what Jesus offers to the human being. Today, more important than the pastoral care of failures is the pastoral effort to strengthen marriages and thus to prevent their breakdown” (AL 307).

The overall sense of the chapter and of the spirit that Pope Francis wishes to impart to the pastoral work of the Church is well summed up in the closing words: “I encourage the faithful who find themselves in complicated situations to speak confidently with their pastors or with other lay people whose lives are committed to the Lord. They may not always encounter in them a confirmation of their own ideas or desires, but they will surely receive some light to help them better understand their situation and discover a path to personal growth. I also encourage the Church’s pastors to listen to them with sensitivity and serenity, with a sincere desire to understand their plight and their point of view, in order to help them live better lives and to recognize their proper place in the Church.” (AL 312).

On the “logic of pastoral mercy”, Pope Francis emphasizes: “At times we find it hard to make room for God’s unconditional love in our pastoral activity. We put so many conditions on mercy that we empty it of its concrete meaning and real significance. That is the worst way of watering down the Gospel” (AL 311). http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2016/04/08/pope_francis_apostolic_exhortation_on_the_joy_of_love/1221178

CHRIST’S REAL PRESENCE IN THE EUCHARIST (The Didache Bible pg. 1373)

The church teaches that Jesus Christ is truly, really, and substantially present—in his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity—in the Eucharist. The bread and wine consecrated by the bishop or priest in the Liturgy of the Eucharist become the Body and Blood of Christ.

The Church has always recognized Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist. Christ’s words in instituting this Sacrament at the Last Supper were unequivocal: “This is my body…This is my blood” (Lk 22:19-20). In the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained” (Council of Trent [1551]: DS 1651). St. Paul condemns the unworthy reception of the Eucharist as a profanation of the very Body and Blood of Christ (cf. 1 Cor. 11:27-29). Already in the fourth century, St. Cyril of Jerusalem exhorted, “Do not see in the bread and wine merely natural elements, because the Lord has expressly said that they are his Body and his Blood: faith assures you of this, though your senses suggest otherwise.” (Cf. CCC 1373, 1375)

This change in the Eucharistic species in which the substance of the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ is called transubstantiation. It occurs at the consecration during the Mass, when the bishop or priest pronounces the words of consecration over the bread and wine as Christ commanded. (Cf. CCC 1376-1377, 1411-1413)

In the Eucharist Christ remains truly and totally present under the appearances of bread and wine. He offers his Body and Blood to us in Holy communion to be nourished by his divine life. The Eucharist is, therefore, not merely a symbol of Christ’s presence but also the active presence of Christ himself, who gives himself to us unconditionally so our lives might be united to his intimately. The Eucharist is “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend” (STh III, 73, 3c). (Cf. CCC 1323-1325)

Chinese Eucharistic Martyr inspired

Archbishop Fulton Sheen to pray his Holy Hour

During China's 1911 Republican Revolution or the earlier Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), anti-Catholic militants seized a Catholic parish. They confined the pastor to house arrest. From his rectory window he witnessed the desecration of the Church. He knew that there had been thirty-two consecrated hosts in the tabernacle. An eleven year old girl was praying at the back of the church and the guards either did not see her or else paid no attention to her. She returned to the Church that night and made a Holy Hour and then consumed one of the sacred hosts, bending down to receive Jesus on her tongue. She continued to return every night, making a nightly Holy Hour and consuming one sacred host. On the last night, the thirty-second night, unfortunately a guard was awakened after she consumed the sacred host. He chased her, grabbed her, and beat her to death with his rifle. Archbishop Fulton Sheen became aware of her martyrdom while he was a seminarian. He was so inspired by her sacrifice that he promised to pray a holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament each day for the rest of his life. The eleven year old girl could have had no idea how she would have influenced a future bishop who would in turn influence millions and promote Eucharistic Adoration. We also have no idea how our witness and sacrifices influence others.

http://www.frtommylane.com/stories/eucharist/chinese_eucharistic_martyr.htm